The offer was blunt: $25,000 to track and kill a person in the Lithuanian capital who, according to U.S. prosecutors, was “telling lies about Russia”. The alleged approach came last year from
NATO is confronting an increasingly complicated challenge in the skies over the Baltic states as drones linked to the war between Russia and Ukraine repeatedly cross into alliance airspace. The latest incident,
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The case of Jason Arday, the black sociology professor whose academic career at the University of Cambridge ended amid allegations ranging from a fabricated biography to systematic plagiarism, has become a striking
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Five years after the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, the country’s education crisis is becoming a wider threat to its social and economic future. Girls remain barred from school beyond the
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The wars that have reshaped the Middle East since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, have entered a diplomatic phase marked by a striking common obstacle: the parties involved
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For much of Dario Amodei’s rise to the summit of artificial intelligence, almost nothing was publicly known about his private life. Even his marital status remained a mystery until only a few
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Three Latin American governments that have taken steps against Chinese commercial interests over the past year have been named in a White House report accusing Chinese exporters of routing goods through third
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JPMorgan Chase ended its banking relationship with prediction-market platform Polymarket last year, citing regulatory concerns, in a move that highlights the continuing caution among major financial institutions towards an industry growing rapidly
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Ursula Kemp was a strong-willed woman. That may have been one reason she eventually ended up on the gallows. A midwife and healer in the small English village of St Osyth, Kemp
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Jonathan did not want to leave Israel. When his wife first suggested moving abroad, he resisted. But after years of war, political turmoil, economic pressure and social tension, the Tel Aviv real-estate
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Spanish investigators are examining an alleged money-laundering network used to conceal the proceeds of a major cocaine trafficking operation centred on the port of Valencia, with suspected funds traced through property companies,
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Leading US artificial intelligence companies OpenAI and Anthropic are cutting the prices of some of their models as they compete to retain cost-conscious customers increasingly turning to cheaper alternatives from Chinese rivals.
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The US Navy’s aircraft carriers have come under renewed scrutiny following complaints about conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, the aircraft carrier deployed in the Middle East for almost seven months without
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UN experts have warned States against normalising Taliban rule in Afghanistan, saying five years of increasingly entrenched restrictions have demonstrated the need for greater international accountability rather than accommodation of the de
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The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Russian Federation, Mariana Katzarova, has warned that a new Russian law imposing sweeping restrictions on Russians living abroad represents an
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At a newly built factory in southwestern Japan, a robot makes a mistake — and then corrects it. At Yaskawa Electric’s new 20 billion yen ($126 million) factory building in Kitakyushu, one
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